Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is the place to be if you like to write and share haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry forms such as choka and kikobun. It’s a warmhearted family of haiku poets created by Chèvrefeuille, a Dutch haiku poet. Japanese poetry is the poetry of nature and it gives an impression of a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water. ++ ALL WORKS PUBLISHED ARE COPYRIGHTED AND THE RIGHTS BELONG TO THE AUTHORS ++ !!! Anonymous comments will be seen as SPAM !!!

Monday, July 10, 2017

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Autumn Retreat 2017 "departure"

As you all know I try to organize every season a so called "retreat" and I love to do this again for autumn 2017. Maybe you think ... "why now already an autumn retreat, it's still summer", well as I started to do these Retreats I thought to do the retreats around the middle of the season before the season of the retreat. In this case that means, that this Autumn Retreat starts on July 15thand will end on August 15th.

This year's autumn retreat I have titled "departure", because I associate autumn with departing and "letting go" or releasing. Nature is saying goodbye to summer with an awesome fire works of beautiful colors and celebrates that nature's going into hibernation ... to become alive again after the cold and dark winter.

This year's Autumn Retreat is about "departure" and I hope to read wonderful haiku and tanka. The Autumn Retreat 2017 starts July 15th at 10.00 PM (CET) and runs until August 15th 10.00 PM (CET). The goal is to create / write a haiku or tanka every day, for 30 days, themed "departure".

To give you an idea .... here are a few poems I created with this theme "departure":

the scent of autumnwalking on the heathfeeling one with a Shepherdin contact with God (*)in the light of the full moonlaying down in the meadowthe River of Heaven (**)the scent of autumnfeelings of departure and lonelinesstears in the puddle

Thank you Kristjaan for this retreat ! This is my first time to write a whole month , nonstop ! someday the words came so easily , and someday it takes a whole night . Thank you again for the inspiring words !!!

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Carpe Diem is the place to be if you like to write and share haiku (or another Japanese poetry form like e.g. tanka). It's a family of haiku loving poets.Japanese poetry is known as the impression of a short moment, say a heartbeat or an eye-blink, in which nature plays an important role.It's free to participate in Carpe Diem. By participating in Carpe Diem, you agree with the use of your work in the exclusive e-book series of Carpe Diem.Of course your work will be credited as Carpe Diem always does. However all the texts and works at Carpe Diem are copyrighted and the rights belong to the authors.

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